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A destroyed Russian tank, with the turret to the right showing the results of the jack-in-the-box effect. Many modern Western tanks (for instance, the M1 Abrams, Leopard 2, and Leclerc) feature ammunition compartments designed to fail safely under fire, reducing damage to the level of a firepower kill.
It consisted of a functional M1A1 turret, M1 turret gear box, hydraulic pump and an M1A1 slip ring adapter. [4] Many of the subsystems were already well proven and in volume production. The turret armor is of a composite material and lacks the protective depleted uranium (DU) meshing found in the M1A1HA (Heavy Armor) variant of the Abrams tank ...
M1 Abrams Block III Tank Test Bed (M1 TTB) was a prototype built in 1983 as part of TACOM's Abrams Block III program (whose purview was to eventually create the M1A3), featuring an unmanned turret with a 44-caliber 120 mm M256 smoothbore gun, three crew members sitting side by side inside an armored capsule at the front of the hull and a suite ...
An M1A1 Abrams with a bustle rack and bustle rack extension packed full of gear. During the Iraq War, some M1 Abrams tanks were fitted with a second bustle rack on the rear of the existing one at the back of the turret. This additional rack is often referred to as a bustle rack extension, or BRE.
The American-made M1 Abrams tank is powerful, with greater range, firepower, and armor than the Russian T-series tanks, which were built for mobility and massed armored assaults, but the M1s that ...
An American XM1 Abrams of the pre-series, the first main battle tank type to be protected by Chobham armour The British Army's Challenger 1 was the second main battle tank to use Chobham armour Chobham armour is the informal name of a composite armour developed in the 1960s at the Military Vehicles and Engineering Establishment , a British tank ...
Turret Panzerturm Tourelle 14: Turret ring Turmdrehkranz Roulement de la tourelle 15: Hull Blindage 16: ... [M1 Abrams|M1A2]] with TUSK (Tank Urban Survival Kit) ...
An M1 Abrams with a turret-mounted gun, coaxial machine gun, pintle-mounted loader's machine gun and commander's remote weapon station. A static mount is a non-portable weapon support component either mounted directly to the ground, on a fortification, or as part of a vehicle.